Themes
I owe the public nothing.
— J.P. Morgan
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker rejects any obligation to the public, insisting that no debt of explanation, service or loyalty is owed to ordinary people. It is a firm statement of independence and entitlement, framed as the speaker's own view of their duties, and it sounds unapologetic about it.
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